A trained professional in charge of public safety warns his employer that a certain building poses grave dangers to those who live and work in it. He does this over and over again.

The bumbling amateurs who run this government ignore, then fire the aforesaid trained professional. Remember: this government’s most hallowed tradition is its use of instant dismissal and career destruction to muzzle those who express inconvenient thoughts, especially in public.

I could drone for thousands of words about the moral bankruptcy of the Nunavut project, those who run it and those who feed themselves by exploiting its numerous dysfunctions. I’m pretty sure there’s an apt quote from John Stuart Mill or someone like him that could illustrate this vile story and that I could drone on about that also.

But in the case of Tony Noakes Jr., ex-Nunavut fire marshall, the thing speaks for itself.